I’ll never forget a conversation I had with a beauty company CEO in my previous life working in beauty at Neiman Marcus. He said “we want to make the best product, but… if you make it too good, it’s challenging to figure out where to go from there.” When wellness brand, MIJA, first came on the scene, I was lucky…
I’ve been on a no-spend kick until the holiday sales, as my beauty collection has grown to the point that I have too many serums and creams, yet only one face. A luxury problem for sure, but a problem just the same. It’s such a great opportunity to explore products I already have, and get to know them better. For…
Lately we’ve been on a fragrance journey, with particular affection to the more transient nature of real botanical perfumes made from a higher-concentration of plants. Sometimes deemed by traditional perfumers as incapable of delivering that encapsulating full-bodied, long wear fragrance experience, we’d implore you to venture into this growing territory of new natural perfumes that replace heady cloaking with a…
I know, I know, it’s been a while! There’s some good news that I’ll share soon on some things I have been working on. In the meantime, I found myself partaking in some Labor Day sales and thought I’d pull together one of my tried-and-true sales picks lists of the sales I am shopping, and what I’m getting. Materiae: 25%…
The Green Derm is back to weigh in on your questions. Show of hands for all those who reapply their sunscreen throughout the day. Chances are, that isn’t many of us. Although many of us know we’re supposed to reapply sunscreen throughout the day, it just doesn’t seem to have turned into something any of us really do. Then, there’s…
